

Takeout doesn't ensure that the media file and associated json are in the same zip, so combining them will fix it.įor any edited file, Takeout also exports both the original and edited files. Note: if your collection is larger than 50GB, and you have multiple zips to download and expand I strongly recommend you combine these into one. Assuming you selected images from all years in your export, you'll see a set of folders each corresponding to a year. I'll assume you're doing the first of these.

This lets you download all images in an album - so if your collection is small enough to add everything to an album, it's a one click download of everything. date it was taken, or which people are in the photo.) json file, which contains the image's metadata (e.g. You can export albums, or alternatively Takeout groups images by year into albums for you (these aren't real albums, they're only visible in takeout.) If you do this, each file will have an associated. This lets you download some or all of your photos via a zip file. Getting images out of Google Photos can be done in two ways.
